The EWTN News portal reports the murder of Father Román de la Cruz Hernández in Hidalgo, Mexico, framing it as another statistic in the ongoing violence against the conciliar sect’s clergy. The article catalogues the predictable responses: episcopal demands for “thorough investigation,” calls for a “culture of peace and reconciliation,” hand-wringing over “impunity,” and the invocation of “religious freedom” as a secular human right. The thesis is clear: the conciliar sect, stripped of supernatural mission, reduces the martyrdom of its ministers to a problem of public safety and state failure, utterly silent on the rights of Christ the King and the salvation of souls.
The Conciliar Clergy as Functionaries of a Failed State
The article presents the murdered priest, “Father” Román de la Cruz Hernández, not as an alter Christus offering the Unbloody Sacrifice for the remission of sins, but as a social worker: “He knows the families, ministers to the sick, listens to people’s problems, celebrates the sacraments, and can also serve as a figure of trust and mediation.” This is the de facto definition of the conciliar “priesthood” — a humanitarian NGO operative. The “sacraments” mentioned are the invalid Novus Ordo services, devoid of propitiatory character, celebrated by men ordained in the bastardized 1968 rite of “Pope” Paul VI, whose orders are at best doubtful and at worst null. The Catholic Multimedia Center, cited as an authority, is merely a bureaucratic arm of the neo-church, tallying casualties like a war correspondent, not a chronicler of the Ecclesia Militans.
Episcopal Silence on the Kingship of Christ
“Bishop” José Hiraís Acosta Beltrán laments “the alarming situation of violence” and calls for “a culture of peace and reconciliation.” Not a word on the Social Reign of Christ the King, condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) when it declared: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The conciliar “bishop” does not proclaim this truth. He begs the Masonic state for “justice,” legitimizing the very secular order that Quas Primas identifies as the source of societal collapse. His “peace” is the pax romana of the City of Man, not the Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
The Heresy of Religious Freedom as a Shield
Julieta Appendini of Aid to the Church in Need (a post-conciliar fundraising apparatus) warns that “fear also has consequences for religious freedom,” defining it as a legal right “to practice their faith… publicly.” This is the condemned error of Dignitatis Humanae (Vatican II), which Pius IX anathematized in the Syllabus: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The true Church teaches Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei). The conciliar sect inverts this: it demands “freedom” for its false worship from a state that has no obligation to God. The murder of a “priest” is thus not an attack on the Mystical Body, but a violation of “human rights” — a Masonic category alien to Catholic theology.
Impunity as the Fruit of Apostasy
The article cites “Father” Omar Sotelo noting “more than 80% of cases remain unsolved,” including the 1993 murder of “Cardinal” Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo. “Cardinal” Juan Sandoval Íñiguez is quoted accusing the state itself of the crime. This is the logical terminus of the conciliar revolution: the “Church” appeals to the secular arm for justice because it has abandoned the Gladium Spiritus (Eph 6:17). St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction ipso facto (De Romano Pontifice). The Mexican hierarchy, in communion with the usurpers in Rome since John XXIII, possesses no authority to bind or loose. They are functionaries of the abomination of desolation (Matt 24:15), tolerated by the Masonic state only as a pacifying opiate for the masses. The “impunity” is not a failure of the state; it is the state’s recognition that the conciliar sect poses no threat to its satanic order.
The False Martyrdom Narrative
The article attempts to construct a hagiography of “pastoral presence”: “Often, he is one of the individuals who remains when others have had to leave; he ministers to the families, listens to the victims, defends the vulnerable…” This is the language of liberation theology and the preferential option for the poor — both condemned by Pius XII and St. Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907) as Modernist deviations. True martyrdom is odium fidei, hatred of the Faith. The article explicitly states: “not every attack on a priest is necessarily motivated by an intent to attack religion. In Mexico, violence can be linked to territorial control, drug trafficking, extortion, or land disputes.” Thus, the conciliar sect admits these are not martyrs for Christ, but casualties of the cartels’ territorial wars. Yet it exploits their deaths for fundraising and “religious freedom” advocacy. This is simulacrum sanctitatis, a counterfeit holiness manufactured for the consumption of the neo-church’s donors.
The Journalist-Priest: Servant of Two Masters
“Father” Omar Sotelo identifies as both “priestly ministry and his work as a journalist,” declaring: “God is with us, the Master Jesus is with us, and in the face of that, we have no choice but to continue carrying out our pastoral work as a priest, a journalist, as a reporter.” This dual vocation is the essence of the conciliar clergy: they serve the Prince of this World (John 12:31) through the media apparatus of the neo-church (EWTN, ACI Prensa), while simulating the priesthood. St. Paul forbids this: “No man being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses” (2 Tim 2:4). The “pastoral work” of a journalist-priest in the conciliar sect is the dissemination of the hermeneutic of continuity, the whitewashing of the Vatican II revolution, and the propagation of the false “saints” of the antipopes (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, Oscar Romero).
Systemic Apostasy: The Root Cause
The violence in Mexico is not a “security crisis”; it is the poena damni of a nation that has officially apostatized. The 1917 Masonic Constitution severed Church and State. The Cristero War (1926-1929) was crushed by the Masonic government with the complicity of the Vatican “diplomacy” of Pius XI (who ordered the Cristeros to lay down arms). Today, the conciliar sect is the willing accomplice of the narco-state. The “priests” murdered are not killed in odium fidei but because they occasionally interfere with cartel operations — or because the cartels send a message to the only remaining institution with social credibility. The conciliar sect’s credibility comes precisely from its worldliness, its integration into the Masonic framework of “human rights,” “democracy,” and “religious freedom.” It is the whore of Babylon (Apoc 17) riding the beast of the Mexican state, drunk with the blood of the true martyrs of Tradition (the Cristeros) whom it betrayed.
Conclusion: No Supernatural Hope in the Neo-Church
The article ends with a subscription prompt for EWTN News. This is the final revelation: the murder of a “priest” is content for a media conglomerate. The conciliar sect has no remedy for Mexico’s agony because it is the spiritual cause of it. Quas Primas declared: “If rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority.” The conciliar “bishops” refuse this veneration. They demand “investigations” from the Masonic prosecutors. They sow fear, not the timor Domini (Ps 110:10). The only solution for Mexico is the restoration of the Reinado Social de Cristo through the integral Catholic Faith, the Traditional Latin Mass, and the rejection of the conciliar sect and its antipopes. Until then, the blood of these “priests” cries out not for “justice” from the state, but for vengeance from the Just Judge — Ultionem habeo, ego retribuam, dicit Dominus (Rom 12:19; Deut 32:35).
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Priest’s murder in Mexico may be warning to sow fear, priest says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.09.2026